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Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank are tying the knot this year (Picture: PA)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle may have stolen the royal wedding limelight with their May 19 nuptials, but there’s still another royal wedding to come this year.

Princess Eugenie will be marrying fiance Jack Brooksbank in a matter of weeks.

Given she’s ninth in line to the British throne, unlike Harry who had been third nearly all of his life until Prince George, Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis were born, making him now sixth, it won’t be quite as grand an affair.

The Duke Of York wrote: ‘The marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Eugenie to Mr Jack Brooksbank will take place on 12th October 2018.

‘As previously announced, the wedding will take place at St. George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle.’

St George’s Chapel where the marriage will take place (Picture: Zak Hussein)

Eugenie and Jack announced their engagement in January this year (Picture: PA)

Eugenie and Jack (Picture: PA)

It is understood their wedding security alone is costing £2million, according to the Mirror, and it is set to be covered by the UK taxpayer.

While it might not be on the same scale as Harry and Meghan’s wedding, it was revealed that they will also be taking part in a carriage ride around Windsor, just like Harry and Meghan did, hence the need for heightened security.

Eugenie and Jack’s carriage ride will depart via Castle Hill and continue along part of Windsor High Street before returning to the castle via Cambridge Gate.

It’s thought Harry and Meghan’s wedding cost between £2 million and £4 million in security, seeing 100,000 people travelling to Windsor to soak up the atmosphere of the special day.

Jack Brooksbank, Princess Eugenie of York, Ellie Goulding and Caspar Jopling attend the Brooklyn Nets Vs New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on October 27, 2017 (Picture: James Devaney/WireImage)

The engagement was greeted with joy by her parents the Duke and Duchess of York, with Andrew summing up the feelings of the royal family with the words: ‘I’m absolutely overjoyed. I’m thrilled.’

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The Queen and Duke of Edinburgh also expressed their delight at the news, wishing their granddaughter and her fiance ‘all the best’.

A close up of Princess Eugenie’s engagement ring, which was gifted to her by fiance Jack Brooksbank (Picture: EPA/Jonathan Brady)

Princess Eugenie’s ring features a padparadscha sapphire which is surrounded by 10 brilliant cut diamonds and two pear cut diamonds, to give it an edge to the standard cluster.

Padparadscha is the name given to the corundum gem that bears a mixture of red and yellow, a sort of cross between a ruby and yellow sapphire.

Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank in the Picture Gallery at Buckingham Palace after announcing their engagement in January 2018 (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

This beautiful gem is sought-after and treasured by gemstone experts, considered the rarest and most valuable of all the corundum varieties.

Deborah Papas of Prestige Pawnbrokers, which features on Channel 4’s Posh Pawn, estimates the value of the ring: ‘With its carefully faceted cut and the set off with the whitest of white diamonds, this ring could easily be worth over £100,000.’

Every royal wedding that's taken place at St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle's wedding is taking place at Windsor Castle - but they're not the first royal couple to have said their vows at the Queen's residence.

The bride and groom to be will be saying 'I do' in front of 600 family and friends inside St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle on Saturday 19 May.

Windsor is expected to be flooded with crowds of people as fans gather to wish Harry and Meghan well.

Here is a list of all of the British royal couples in history who have married at Windsor Castle too (and while some may remember Prince Charles and Camilla Parker Bowles married in Windsor, they didn't marry in Windsor Castle - they instead tied the knot at the Guildhall in Windsor).

Prince Edward and Princess Alexandra

Illustration of the marriage of Edward, Prince of Wales to Princess Alexandra of Denmark in St, George's Chapel, Windsor, March 10th 1863 (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Another illustration from the 1863 marriage of King Edward VII and Princess Alexandra of Denmark at Windsor Castle (Picture: Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

On 10 March 1863, Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, the eldest son and successor of Queen Victoria, married Princess Alexandra of Denmark at St George's Chapel.

Princess Helena and Prince Christian

On 5 July 1866, Princess Helena, who was the third daughter of Queen Victoria, married Prince Christian of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg at St George's Chapel.

Princess Louise and Marquess of Lorne

On 21 March 1871, Princess Louise, the fourth daughter of Queen Victoria, married the Marquess of Lorne (later Duke of Argyll) at St George's Chapel.

Prince Arthur and Princess Louise Margaret

1878: Arthur William, Duke of Connaught (1850 - 1942), third son of Queen Victoria with the Duchess of Connaught, formerly Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia. (Photo by Spencer Arnold/Getty Images)

On 13 March 1879, Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, who was the third son of Queen Victoria, married Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia at St George's Chapel.

Princess Frederica and Luitbert von Pawel Rammingen

On 24 March 1880, Princess Frederica of Hanover, the great-granddaughter of King George III, married Luitbert von Pawel Rammingen at St George's Chapel.

Prince Leopold and Princess Helena

On 27 April 1882, Prince Leopold, Duke of Albany, the youngest son of Queen Victoria, married Princess Helena of Waldeck-Pyrmont at St George's Chapel.

On 19 June 1999, Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex, the youngest son of Queen Elizabeth II, married Sophie Helen Rhys-Jones at St George's Chapel. Theirs was the first wedding to take place at the chapel for 94 years.

Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, and his wife Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, depart the Civil Ceremony where they were legally married, at The Guildhall in Windsor on April 9, 2005 (Picture: Georges De Keerle/Getty Images)

Charles' marriage had to be approved by the Queen, the government and the Church Of England as, given he is the future Supreme Governor of the Church Of England, his divorcee status was met with some caution.

They were set to marry at Windsor Castle in a civil ceremony followed by a religious blessing at St George's Chapel. However, Windsor Castle would have had to have applied for a licence for civil marriages, with one condition being that the venue must be available for civil marriages for a period of 12 months, which the royal family did not want.

Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales, his wife Camilla, the Duchess Of Cornwall, and mother by HM Queen Elizabeth II, the Queen, leave the Service of Prayer and Dedication (Picture: ROTA-Pool/Getty Images)

The couple were therefore married at the town hall at Windsor Guildhall with Prince William and Tom Parker Bowles witnesses.

The Queen and the Duke Of Edinburgh then joined for their religious blessing.

A reception was held at Windsor Castle for the newly married couple, arranged by the Queen.

Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly

Queen Elizabeth ll chats to Zara Phillips following the wedding of Peter Phillips and Autumn Kelly at St. George's Chapel on May 17, 2008 in Windsor (Picture: Pool/Anwar Hussein Collection/WireImage)

On 17 May 2008, Peter Phillips, the son of Anne, Princess Royal and Mark Phillips, married Canadian Autumn Kelly at St George's Chapel.

Ahead of their marriage, Kelly converted from Roman Catholicism to join the Church of England. Had she remained Roman Catholic, Phillips would have lost his place in the current line of the succession to the throne, of which he is 14th, due to the terms of the 1701 Act Of Settlement.

They welcomed the Queen's first great-grandchild, Savannah Anne Kathleen, on 29 December 2010.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle

Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex and his wife Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, leave from the West Door of St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, in Windsor on May 19, 2018 in Windsor, England. (Picture: Ben STANSALL - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle tied the knot on 19 May at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle.

Their special day was the first royal wedding to take place there in 10 years, after Peter and Autumn's.

And one more to go...

Princess Beatrice and Jack Brooksbank

Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank announced their engagement on 22 January this year (Picture: EPA/Jonathan Brad)

Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank will be marrying at St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle on Friday 12 October, just five months after Harry and Meghan.